"What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and……" — Walt Whitman

More Adorning Quotes

This quote is filed under Adorning Quotes, one of 15 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works. — Clement of Alexandria
• May you become as the waves of one sea, stars of the same heaven, fruits adorning the same tree, roses… — Abdu'l-Bahá
• The soul should take care of the body, just as the pilgrim on his way to Makkah takes care of… — Al-Ghazali
• To slaughter grand and beautiful creatures like these tuskers, whether terrestrial or marine, solely to obtain a few teeth indicates… — Paul Watson
• It is right to love beauty and to desire it; but God desires us to love and seek first the… — Ellen G. White
• The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with… — William Blake
• For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for… — Bhartrhari
• Love like a phantoms lights but hold in the heart, it builds like the empty smile adorning a statue with… — Dan Fogelberg
• Say: o brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning. — Bahá'u'lláh
• Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning… — Jean Kerr
• If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because… — Isabel Allende
• The year's in wane; There is nothing adorning; The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold… — Thomas Hood

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